Object contour extraction in medical images by fast adaptive B-Snake

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3068-3071

  Marsousi, Mahdi ^a   Eftekhari, Armin ^a   Alirezaie, Javad ^a,b,c  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SPLINES;

B-SPLINE SNAKES; BRAIN MR IMAGES; CONVERGENCE SPEED; EDGE CONTOUR; KNOT INSERTION; NOVEL STRATEGIES; OBJECT CLASS; OBJECT CONTOUR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61849185916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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